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Automattic, the owner of both Tumblr and Wordpress, admitted that they’re working with AI companies to sell their users’ creations to help train AI models. This site has been on WordPre…

Last week I drove about 2,000 miles from northwestern Oregon down to Southern California and back. It was about 15 hours each way and I saw a lot and took a few notes along the way. Nothing beats dead straight roads for audiobooks I've done this trip close to

Jason Kottke, 21st December 2023: “Substack explains why they are paying Nazis to publish on their platform. Friends who publish on Substack, are you ok with this? If not, maybe try Buttondow…

By Ruben Schade in Australia. 🌻

It's time for regulation.

Intended audience: You are likely to enjoy this post the most if you are interested in Linux and/or Linux manual pages, or if you enjoy reading about esoteric programming projects.

One never finishes playing piano: you get better, day by day. You continue to learn new things. There never being a completion point is part of the thrill. Oh! the paths you can walk. You get to decide which you explore. This is the same with blogging. Personal blogs, like many hobbies, are never “complete.” Day by day, you can chart a new path.

In today’s Web, being online seldom means being present. Browsing doesn’t mean reading. Following hardly means connecting. Posting certainly doesn’t mean articulating. Commenting rarely means conversing. Listening doesn’t mean comprehending. Watching never meant absorbing. And likes don’t mean anything anyway. We largely live an internet

You might be so confused by this title. If you’re reading this Chris, I’m just kidding, I’m sure you smell wonderfully. I just couldn’t resist the …

Here's what's up with me.

sent me this cool about blogging the other day and one of the pages on it is a list of . It's a great list, even if I didn't know the answers to many of th...

This is the 27th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have …

Over on one of my other blogs, I write—albeit it in an on-and-off-again fashion—about local politics and municipal policy here in my small western Massachusetts town. We are heading into budget season for the next few months, when all of the various departments assemble their budget requests for the next fiscal year and submit them to the mayor. The mayor then compiles all of into her budget, which goes to the city council for approval (or not).

Dave Winer has been talking a bit about blogrolls lately: lists of blogs you like to read that typically sit on a sidebar or separate

New book about to drop! Well, sort of. Some news on the latest novella….good, slightly un-good, and otherwise.

attended a risograph workshop on our 94th month anniversary! so grateful to her for suggesting it and encouraging me to commit to it (i've intense commitment phobia). we had fun learning a lot, and...

February has come to an end and with it also ended my experience hosting the 9th edition of the IndieWeb Carnival. To be honest with you, I didn’t …

[cw: suicidal thoughts] I guess this does not come as a surprise to anyone – I think I have an inherent dislike for my self. No one who inherently likes them selves would keep having thoughts of...

This is my entry for this month’s IndieWeb Carnival hosted by Orchids on the topic of Accessibility in the Small Web I started making websites back …

I didn't get a lot of sleep last night, so today I opted to wear the new glasses I got last year. Since I've never liked the look of glasses on my face or th...